NEW STAFF FOR SPRING !

Welcome to Annelise our newest member of staff ! 

She introduced herself using 'Quackers' the puppet on her first day and noticed later that some children found the hand puppets such as bumble bee and dragon and used them imaginatively; recreating sounds of the bee and breathing fire from the dragon. The children engaged in action songs and rhymes most able to listen to and followed instructions and actions.

Great play using the wooden blocks making cars, boats and hovercrafts using the same amount of blocks, just changing the positioning of them. It was great to see a group of children accessing helmets as a safety precaution as their tower of blocks became wobbly as they built it as 'tall as themselves' !

We have noticed this week how all the children are really beginning to enjoy playing and interacting together. There has been a lot of great role play together and caring towards each other. Some of the children were playing in the outside area on the tractor tyre, pretending to be in a boat, using the oars and going off to 'Goldilocks land'. When they reached it they were trying out the beds and eating  porridge! Great imaginations and beautiful singing,  'row,row, row your boat'.

There was some great big build construction going on alongside chalk  mark making. Drawing around shapes and their hands.  The younger children enjoyed the shaving foam in the tuff tray- “driving the cars in the snow”

It was lovely to see the children's delight at making cress boxes to take home - they enjoyed sprinkling on the seed and watering - thanks to our lovely volunteer helper who organised this and who helped the children achieve this.